Jimmy
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Mr. Nguyen, I taught English as a second language to ARVN soldiers. I now wonder about what they went through after the collapse of Saigon. Do you know of any nonfiction books that make an accounting of what re-education camps were like, how many people were executed or imprisoned, and what the citizens of South Vietnam faced when the North took over?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh's South Wind Changing; Duong Thu Huong's Memories of a Pure Spring; Nghia M. Vo's Bamboo Gulag
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Michael Rieman
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
The narrator of The Sympathizer uses ridicule and satire in portraying most of the American characters presented in the text. That is certainly appropriate to his experiences and ambivalent values related to the US. To what extent might you share his opinions about Americans?
Franti
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Viet Thanh Nguyen:
Reading in "the sympathizer" your (inspiring) pages on film-making and the americanization of the world through hollywood blockbusters I could not help to wonder if they were underscored by the zizekian mantra of ideology conveyed through filmography? Greetings from Brussels.
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